- Trial: Daily pill nearly doubled survival time for people with advanced pancreatic cancer
Source: Times of Israel [Jerusalem]
“A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers report, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer. ‘While not curing the cancer, it is a very large step forward,’ says Dr. Zev Wainberg, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped lead the study. The drug is called daraxonrasib and it blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases — a target that had eluded treatment for decades. The daily pills nearly doubled survival time, with fewer severe side effects, in a study that randomly assigned the experimental drug or more chemotherapy to 500 patients whose metastatic, or spreading, cancer had quit responding to prior treatment. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago.” (05/31/26)
- Israel: Netanyahu vows to expand occupation of Lebanon after deepest incursion in 26 years
Source: NBC News
“Israeli forces have captured a strategic site in Lebanon across the Litani River, marking Israel’s deepest incursion into the country in 26 years. The capture of Beaufort Ridge, the site of a medieval castle, comes after days of intense fighting in southern Lebanon, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying Sunday the seizure marks a ‘dramatic change’ in Israeli strategy. … ‘My instruction is to deepen and expand our grip on the places that were under Hezbollah’s control,’ he added. ‘The occupation of Beaufort is a dramatic stage and a dramatic change in the policy that we are leading.'” (05/31/26)
- WHO confirms five patients have recovered from rare type of Ebola that has killed over 200 in the Congo
Source: New York Post
“Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola, the head of the World Health Organization said Sunday during a visit to eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak. ‘Four people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged the day before yesterday,’ WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the opening of a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia, the provinical capital of Ituri. ‘Of course, we’re still working on vaccines and treatments but that doesn’t mean that people cannot recover from Ebola,’ he added. … The health organization said latest official figures showed 906 suspected cases and 223 suspected deaths. Neighboring Uganda has confirmed nine cases and one death, the Ugandan Health Ministry said Friday.” (05/31/26)
- Trump says he’ll appear himself after performers drop out of “Great American State Fair”
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump will headline an event commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary on the National Mall next month, organizers said on Saturday, after several musical performers scheduled to appear in the celebration canceled, citing concerns about its association with him. The concerts were planned as the opening ceremony of the Great American State Fair, a 16-day event running from June 25 to July 10, 2026. … the musical lineup has been hit by a series of cancellations. On Friday, Bret Michaels, the lead singer of the rock band Poison, became the fifth performer to withdraw from the concerts, saying that the event was not the nonpartisan celebration that he thought it would be. … ‘The fact is that I am, according to many, the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World,’ Trump wrote.” (05/30/26)
- ME: Platner’s wife “angry, disappointed” her past disclosures of his extramarital sexting were made public
Source: NBC News
“The wife of Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, said she is ‘really angry’ about reports that she had previously told her husband’s campaign he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women. ‘It makes me really angry, disappointed,’ Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, said in a direct-to-camera video released by Platner’s campaign on Saturday night. ‘And I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on.’ Gertner’s remarks came after The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that Gertner had told Platner’s campaign about the sexually explicit texts last year, near the start of his Senate bid.” (05/31/26)
- WA: Eleven confirmed dead in chemical accident
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“The death toll from a chemical tank rupture in the U.S. state of Washington climbed to 11 as crews recovered the bodies of all nine missing people, authorities said on Saturday. Two fatalities had been confirmed after the tank containing ‘white liquor’ — a chemical solution of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in making paper pulp — imploded at a Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility on Tuesday. … The ruptured tank contained about 3.4 million litres of white liquor, and tests confirmed that contamination entered the nearby Columbia River, officials have said, although no ‘negative health impacts’ had been detected on air quality or the city of Longview’s drinking water.” (05/31/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/washington-state-chemical-accident-9.7218298
- Secretly filmed UFO doc reveals insider video as officials release new alien records
Source: Fox News
“A new, secretly filmed documentary profiling one of the most prominent names in the UFO disclosure movement has crash-landed at the height of the federal government’s release of unclassified documents pertaining to otherworldly encounters. ‘Sleeping Dog,’ directed by Michael Lazovsky, follows prominent investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell throughout his decades-long efforts regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) transparency. Corbell has served as a key figure in the disclosure movement by platforming UAP whistleblowers and facilitating Congressional hearings to bring attention to the topic, with the documentary focusing primarily on his efforts to implore federal officials to release classified information regarding UFOs to the American public. … The documentary — which was filmed in secret over the span of several years — also reveals previously unreleased footage from Corbell’s investigations and includes interviews from several prominent names in the movement, including astronaut Edgar Mitchell, David Grusch and George Knapp.” (05/31/26)
- Judge launches inquiry into Trump-IRS settlement that led to “anti-weaponization” fund
Source: Politico
“A federal judge is demanding answers to allegations that President Donald Trump defrauded her court by filing a lawsuit against the IRS as a pretext to reach a settlement that resulted in a $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund to make payouts to his political allies. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams launched the inquiry Friday, after closing the lawsuit on her docket last week. The Miami-based Obama appointee cited a request by 35 former federal judges who urged her to reopen the case to determine whether Trump’s effort amounted to ‘serious misconduct’ and an abuse of the court system.” (05/30/26)
- NJ: Newark mayor imposes curfew after protesters clash with violent gang members
Source: SFGate
“The mayor of Newark imposed a curfew early Sunday around an immigration [concentration camp] in New Jersey after a series of intense clashes between protestors and [gang members]. The curfew around Delaney Hall will be in place between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. until further notice, Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement. The move came after another night of standoffs between [gang members] and demonstrators at the facility, as protestors could be seen in photographs and videos fighting over barricades as [gang members] used riot shields to push them back. A video posted on social media showed [gang members] on horseback marching into crowds attempting to break up groups of protestors. The demonstrations at Delaney Hall began earlier this month after advocates said detainees inside launched a hunger strike over poor living conditions at the 1,000-bed facility, the latest hotbed of opposition over the federal government’s immigration crackdown.” (05/31/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/newark-mayor-imposes-curfew-around-delaney-hall-22284790.php
- We Must End the TSA “License to Loot”
Source: Independent Institute
by Jim Bovard“For more than a decade, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. More than 10,000 travelers have been stripped of their money by TSA agents since 2014. But the feds almost never bother filing criminal charges against the victims of asset forfeiture. TSA considers itself generous when it ‘permits the passenger to continue on to their destination’ — after taking away their money.” (05/29/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/we-must-end-the-tsa-license-to-loot
- AI fiction is the new fast food
Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle“If the proliferation of AI writing is a problem, it’s not because it’s terrible slop unfit for human consumption; it’s a problem because in some specific ways, it’s too good. It is the literary equivalent of fast food: convenient, cheap, hyper-consistent and relentlessly optimized to tickle our pleasure centers. Sure, AI produces some crazy metaphors and weird hallucinations, because the models have all of our text and none of our context. On the other hand, AI is really good at optimizing for readability, both stylistically and structurally. … as with fast food, what people want now isn’t necessarily good for them in the long run.” (05/31/26)
- Tennessee Celebrates the New-Fangled “Nuclear Family”
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“The nostalgia for a 1950s ‘mom, dad, two kids, Chevy four-door, well-manicured lawn around a tidy cottage’ way of life is not nostalgia for ‘the old days,’ let alone for the days shortly after ‘the creation of the world.’ It’s nostalgia for post-World-War-2 Pasadena, California.” (05/31/26)
- Trump Loves Accusing Critics of Treason. US Law Makes That Charge Hard To Prove — for Good Reason.
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum“The president’s habitual attempts to criminalize dissent hark back to tyrants of yore.” (05/30/26)
- A Nation of Suspects
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano“Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and without warrants.” (05/29/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/05/28/a-nation-of-suspects
- An Iran rebuilt on mercy
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“Over the past year, two military campaigns against Iran by the United States and Israel never triggered a popular uprising that would fell the Islamic Republic, as hoped. Instead, President Donald Trump has now reached a tentative deal with the regime to address two international concerns: ending Iran’s nuclear program and opening the vital Strait of Hormuz to shipping. Still, many Iranians, especially the millions living abroad, have been busier than usual. They are trying to unite behind new plans for what to do if the government does collapse – notably, how to ensure no violence against the regime and its followers as a way to entice defections. They are heartened by reports of a power struggle in Tehran.” (05/29/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0529/An-Iran-rebuilt-on-mercy
- Ryanair, Easyjet, and just say no to a Financial Transactions Tax
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall“Those with long memories will recall the campaign to have a Financial Transactions Tax. Something we were vehemently opposed to no doubt because we’re neoliberals or something. The idea was to have a miserly — say, 0.1%, or 0.05%, that sort of amount — tax on every financial transaction. The claim was that this would not affect ‘real’ trade and would only reduce the amount of speculative froth in the marketplace. Which would, according to the proposers, be good. Because, well, speculative froth and all that. Just capitalists playing with money, see? Except speculative froth does have a point …” (05/31/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/ryanair-easyjet-and-just-say-no-to-a-financial-transactions-tax
- When is enough enough for the Iran war hawks?
Source: The Hill
by Douglas MacKinnon“Many of the those pushing for war over the last few decades were politicians, news editors and pundits thousands of miles from the battlefield. These ‘hawks’ continued their lives of luxury and safety within their bubbles of entitlement while young American troops became the disposable pawns to be moved about the surface of a macabre board game. … as President Trump seeks to find a lasting solution to end the war with Iran, their harsh voices can be heard screeching out their disapproval. Just the very thought of an extended ceasefire is enough to trigger some of the hawks. When is enough enough for the Iran war hawks? Naturally, they will say when Iran is no longer a threat to the U.S. or Israel. But what does ‘no longer a threat’ really mean? And what does the now ubiquitous phrase ‘finish the job’ really mean with respect to Iran?” (05/30/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5900029-iran-war-hawks-debate/
- Warmongers Keep Generating AI Atrocity Propaganda About Iran
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“Another AI atrocity propaganda project about Iran has been unleashed, this time in the form of a movie titled ‘Dreams of Violets’ at the Tribeca film festival. … The film’s trailer depicts sympathetic protagonists being brutally victimized by Iranian authorities, and concludes with the image of fighter jets soaring overhead while an English-captioned Persian voiceover says ‘If Iran gets liberated, celebrate for me. Enjoy it for us!'” (05/29/26)
- Nothing Should Be Nationalized
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance“There is one main problem with President Trump’s call to nationalize elections: the Constitution, which decentralizes the election process with a minor role for Congress. Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution states that ‘the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.’ There is no provision for the president to have anything to do with elections through executive action. … Another problem with President Trump’s call to nationalize elections is that it is based on something that is largely imaginary.” (05/29/26)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/nothing-should-be-nationalized/
- We Must Rise Up to Defend Democracy [sic] Now
Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias“In a healthy democracy, we have a say in how our daily lives are run, how our neighbors are treated, and how our tax dollars are spent. Right now, the majority of Americans are dissatisfied with how the country is being run, and where it is going. In a healthy democracy, we would be able to demand the change of direction we need with our votes. Yet our democracy [sic] is not healthy. This fundamental right – for every vote to count and be counted – is being taken away from us as we speak. That is why it is our duty to rise up and restore the health of our democracy, while we still can.” (05/31/26)
https://ourfuture.org/20260531/we-must-rise-up-to-defend-democracy-now
- In politics after Trump, nothing is disqualifying
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Matt K Lewis“Under old ‘pre-Trump’ rules, [Graham] Platner’s campaign would have withered instantly after revelations that he once had a Totenkopf SS tattoo, previously identified himself as a communist, said Black people were poor tippers, and wrote that white people ‘actually are’ as racist and stupid as Trump thinks they are. Instead, after all this surfaced, Platner actually rose in the polls. … Maybe Maine Dems have concluded that moral purity tests are politically suicidal after years of watching heterodox figures like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk drift away from the party. … Or maybe Maine Democrats have absorbed the same lesson Republicans adopted in 2016: Once voters stop treating scandal as disqualifying, policing your own side for off-the-field behavior starts to look like unilateral disarmament.” (05/29/26)
- Acton’s Case for Federalism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Max Skjönsberg“The French Revolution remains one of the pivotal events that still shape historical thinking and writing and is commonly seen as one of the watersheds of modernity. For Edmund Burke, it meant that “the glory of Europe [was] extinguished forever”; for Hegel, the climax of world revolutions; for Tocqueville, the triumph of centralization; for Marx and Marxists, the victory of the bourgeoisie over the feudal class. Marxism dominated history writing for much of the twentieth century until the French historian François Furet in 1978 presented a radical interpretation that shifted focus to the ideas of the revolution. But Furet had been anticipated by one of the great English historians and liberals, Lord Acton.” (05/29/26)
- Of Course We’re Fighting on the Lawn
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson“It does not matter whether you live in a trailer park or a brick ranch house or something more grand and getting grander, it is all the same: Tornado bait is tornado bait. When the Trump administration announced that it was staging a UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House, I knew what I was seeing. It is as familiar to me as the taste of canned Ranch Style Beans on cornbread …. I know my people. My people know what they like. And they will have what they like even if it harelips the pope — especially if it harelips the pope. It took 250 years, but you got here. All the way down here. From Greatest Generation to White Trash Nation in the space of one lifetime.” (05/29/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/ufc-fight-white-house-american-decline/
- There Is No Right Way for the State to Kill People
Source: OtherWords
by Furonda Brasfield“As a long-time death penalty abolitionist, I’ve often compared the death penalty in America to a train with no brakes: Once the machinery starts moving, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to stop. But the real problem is that the train should never have been built. Today, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Arkansas are experimenting with nitrogen gas executions, a method officials claim is more humane. But from noose to needle to nitrogen, our constant search for a more acceptable way to kill is a story of failure, not moral progress. There’s no acceptable way to practice a form of state killing that, for Black Americans especially, has long been intertwined with terror. History should make us skeptical whenever governments begin searching for new technologies to make killing appear more acceptable.” (05/31/26)
- Patents: The Damage of Coerced Intellectual Monopoly
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Jorge Besada“One of the reasons why we fall for the erroneous idea that patents are good for society is because we greatly overestimate the importance of the specific individual or company making a discovery while being unaware of how the market process — via its various mechanisms like prices, the profit motive, and economic competition — plays a key role in innovation.” (05/29/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/patents-damage-coerced-intellectual-monopoly
- How Much US Farmland Do Chinese Investors Actually Own?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle“The economic and agricultural threat posed by Chinese-owned farmland is modest, but our fears may reflect broader anxieties about national power.” (05/29/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-much-us-farmland-do-chinese-investors-actually-own/
- The New Religion of AI Accelerationism
Source: CounterPunch
by David S D’Amato“Today’s technology sector does not represent the principles of anything like actual free-market competition; intensively subsidized by the public and deeply tied to the federal government, the major tech companies are a state-capital oligopoly that have benefited enormously from a variety of special subsidies and perks unavailable to ordinary companies and citizens. When we account for direct federal grants and subsidies, infrastructure support, and hardware manufacturing, public subsidies and allocations for AI have reached well into the hundreds of billions of dollars.” (05/29/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/29/the-new-religion-of-ai-accelerationism/
- The Bottle of Freedom
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes“When the Portuguese government decided to add a 10-cent deposit to the price of every plastic bottle under 3 liters (101 fl oz), a small family business in central Portugal did the math and launched a 3.1-liter (105 fl oz) bottle.” (05/29/26)
- Black People Are Not Children, Nor Are They “Special”
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter“To hear Democrats talk about black people is a mix of arrogance, racism and more condescension than could be crammed into the Grand Canyon. What do I mean by that? It’s pretty simple, really: the left simultaneously insists black people are perpetual victims with economic hardship thrust upon them by ‘systemic racism’ and the sole builders of everything good and superior to everyone else. None of it is true, but all of it is designed to manipulate. Democrats, even black Democrats, treat the average black American like they’re a child and special; neither is true. They’re just people, like everyone else.” (05/31/26)
- Hell Is Empty, and All the Ken Paxtons Are Here
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod“Ken Paxton is not the first criminal with a narcissistic personality to run for and hold office in this country. In the Trump era, such traits might not seem worth remarking on at all. But Paxton manages to exceed most of his peers in his perfidy and his cruelty. He’s a man who seems to know absolutely no decency, down to a molecular level. And, sadly, he also may be the future of this country.” (05/29/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/hell-is-empty-and-all-the-ken-paxtons-are-here/
- You can’t hide your lying ICE: The covered-up killing of Ruben Ray Martinez
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko“It took nearly a year for the public to learn that a DHS officer killed a Latino man and U.S. citizen — and that federal officers lied about how it happened.” (05/29/26)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/you-cant-hide-your-lying-ice-the-432
- Liberalism’s Uneasy Relationship with Democracy
Source: Liberalism.org
by Ilya Somin“Liberalism — defined as the political philosophy that prioritizes individual freedom and human happiness — has always had an equivocal relationship with democracy. Democratic governments generally feature much greater liberty and happiness than other types of regimes. Liberals should resist the temptation to embrace authoritarianism. But there are also multiple ways in which democracy can often threaten liberty and human welfare. These dangers include the tyranny of the majority and widespread voter ignorance. Democracy can also be a threat to its own perpetuation, by bringing to power authoritarian political movements. These are all longstanding problems. But recent events demonstrate their continuing — and in some cases growing — significance.” (05/29/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism-s-uneasy-relationship-with-democracy
- Pink Flame of Liberty, 05/30/26
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“LNC Convention Discussion.” (05/30/26)
- Unattended Baggage, episode 342
Source: Unattended Baggage
“They walk among us.” (05/30/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-342-they-walk-among-us
- Free Talk Live, 05/30/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Does AI deserve Personhood? :: Libertarian Socialism? What’s that??? :: Should politics come with a dress code? :: What is YOUR pet freedom? :: Compelling people into your beliefs is bad, guys. :: Should the libertarian party exist? :: Public schools aren’t teaching anyone anything. :: Bonnies LNC highlights and lowlights :: Libertarian on Libertarian violence :: How big of a society can you really have? :: Free city of Orania, South Africa :: 2026-05-30 Hosts: Lori, Bonnie, Riley.” (05/30/26)
- The Mona Charen Show, 05/30/26
Source: The Bulwark
“Trump’s Staggering Corruption Is Finally Catching Up to Him (w/ Jonathan Chait).” (05/30/26)
- The Good Fight, 05/30/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior.” (05/29/26)
- The Inner Life of Liberalism, episode 2
Source: The Inner Life of Liberalism
“The Virtues of Honesty — with Christian Miller.” (05/29/26)
- Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 05/29/26
Source: Freedom Works
“George Beebe, Quincy Institute ‘Russia Warns of New Ukraine Strikes.'” (05/29/26)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2026-05-29_zfw005292026.mp3
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 05/29/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Trump Has Allowed Netanyahu to Control Negotiations, and it’s hurting Americans.” (05/29/26)
- System Update, 05/29/26
Source: Glenn Greenwald
“Q&A on Glenn’s JUBILEE DEBATE, Norman Finkelstein on the Anti-Israel Right, Thomas Massie Drama, Trump’s SLUSH FUND, Cats & More.” (05/29/26)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/thursday-q-and-a-on-glenns-jubilee
- Serious Trouble, 05/29/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“Court Officers Behaving Badly.” (05/29/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/court-officers-behaving-badly